A Day to Celebrate
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fantastic_jackieToday was a joyous day; yesterday was, as well, but for much different reasons - which I'll start with since it's much shorter. ^^
And now, please excuse the run-on sentences... No cuts; this is important.
THANK YOU TALK RADIO, FELLOW CONCERNED AMERICANS, and last and certainly least, SENATORS OF THE 110th US CONGRESS!!
For those of you who may not know, today was an amazing example of democracy in action.
On Tuesday, in an extremely controversial vote, the Senate revived the "Amnesty Bill" - officially called the Comprehensive Immigration Bill - for 30 hours of debate. I, along with the majority of America, was against this first cloture vote, but despite the numerous calls, faxes, letters, and e-mails from concerned citizens - constituents - across the country, the Senators ignored the voices of the people and voted in favor of bringing the bill out to debate again.
This bill called for the immediate legalization of 12-25 MILLION illegal immigrants by the simple signature of the President. They would be "required" to pay $5,000 to become registered and begin a path towards citizenship. - After a "24 hour background check." Current regulations stipulate 90 DAY background checks, and they're STILL not finished within that timeframe; this measure of the bill was a joke! - It even provided a way for the criminals amongst them to become citizens. The bill was drafted in secret behind closed doors - *coughcough* Anyone remember democratic campaign promises about OPEN government and nothing behind closed doors????*coughcough* - and not even printed when debate began on Wednesday. NONE OF THE SENATORS VOTING IN FAVOR OF THE BILL HAD READ THE BILL. Not a single one. Yet to the citizens who lit the phones, fax lines, e-mails, and mail boxes on fire who HAD read the bill and DID know what was in it, the Senators said it was WE who were the ones who did not understand the bill!! The bill never went to committee. It never had a cost analysis run on it! The Heritage Foundation, a star conservative Think Tank, was the ONLY one to run the numbers: they came up with a cost of $2.6 Trillion to the health care and social security systems in 15-20 years. Which you can attempt to throw the number out the window because they're a political organization and impugn them for who they are, but you canNOT argue that the cost of this bill is ASTRONOMICAL!
In the uphill battle of Citizens vs Government - a battle that is NEVER supposed to occur in a country where the government is FOR the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE - WE THE PEOPLE shut down the phone system of the United States Senate; they couldn't even send simple messages between each other. The phone system completely crashed from all the incoming calls. Even though just shy of 80% of the nation is against amnesty for illegal aliens and only 22% of the population supported the outrageous bill, (Rasmussen & CBS polls) the Senators were fully expected to ignore us all.
They didn't, surprising everyone.
The vote of 46 YEA to 53 NAY for cloture - bringing the bill to the floor to end debate and take an immediate vote which would pass it onto the House or kill it - effectively killed the bill again. - At least for a little while until Majority Leader Harry Reid decides to bring it up again.
For now, the threat of amnesty is past, but certainly not defeated. We can hope that maybe now the government will stop sitting on the funds promised to boarder patrol and to build the fence along the southern border. (A wasted attempt, IMO. If we're going to build anything, why waste money on a fence? Let's just build a wall if Washington is convinced that's the way to go. - Of course, we know that they dig tunnels. Under one of the most recent areas of fencing, they found EIGHT TUNNELS for drug trafficking. We need more boarder patrol and less incentive to come into this country illegally.)
Now in the Senate, they're debating the Fairness Doctrine - a bill to require radio stations to play both conservative radio shows and liberal radio shows, completely stripping the radio industry of their freedoms in both the business sense and especially in free speech. Radio talk shows like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity do far better than shows such as Al Franken and NPR simply because they're better. No one forces me or any Limbaugh/Hannity listener to turn the radio on to ABC to listen to them; it's free choice. And now the government is attempting to step in on that.
We've another battle ahead of us; the liberals have been after the talk radio industry - the only place in the media dominated by conservatives as opposed to the liberals controlling the mainstream tv and newspaper medias - for the longest time. And if they succeed in this effort, you can count on blogs being next because more and more people are turning to them for their information. - And those blogs are slanted - most of the most influential ones being conservative in ideology.
Today was a day to celebrate, but not a day to kick back and relax. There's a lot more to fight for, and with democrats in power and spineless republicans as our only hope, it's going to be extremely tough. The good news is that I think this fight may have, as Hannity said today, galvanized the base, and that's what the republicans needed after the horrible political year of 2006.
You know how sometimes you lose that $20 bill in your favorite jeans pocket and can't find it for the longest time despite looking again and again? And then one day, you pop them out of the dryer, and suddenly there's the 20, and you're so excited simply because you found it??
Well, even if you don't know what that's like, I'm sure you can imagine. ^^ And that's what re-discovering Stargate SG-1 through Netflix is like, and more specifically, re-discovering my very first official ship of Cl. Jack O'Neil and Capt/Major Samantha Carter. ^____^ This is even pre-Mulder/Scully shipping, and I was avid on them! X-File fanfiction was the first fanfiction I ever read! Well, I was always under the impression that the writers never actually acknowledged Jack and Sam as couple considering their rank and position in the Air Force to each other - like those pairings that aren't supposed to happen in canon, but you hope for, anyway.
Hee. I found out yesterday I was wrong. And I'm SOOOOO happy! ^__________^
Teeheeheehee... Back to the pants, I know that if I'd just looked a little longer and harder, I'd have found it all, but I didn't. And now I'm absolutely GLEEFUL about it! XDXDXD Oh, WOOT! They might as well outright confessed to each other infront of other people, and then he kissed her in the next episode. XDXDXD YESSSSSSSS!!! <--So cheered that when he kissed her. XDXD
Anyone here an SG-1 fan??
Well, even if you don't know what that's like, I'm sure you can imagine. ^^ And that's what re-discovering Stargate SG-1 through Netflix is like, and more specifically, re-discovering my very first official ship of Cl. Jack O'Neil and Capt/Major Samantha Carter. ^____^ This is even pre-Mulder/Scully shipping, and I was avid on them! X-File fanfiction was the first fanfiction I ever read! Well, I was always under the impression that the writers never actually acknowledged Jack and Sam as couple considering their rank and position in the Air Force to each other - like those pairings that aren't supposed to happen in canon, but you hope for, anyway.
Hee. I found out yesterday I was wrong. And I'm SOOOOO happy! ^__________^
Teeheeheehee... Back to the pants, I know that if I'd just looked a little longer and harder, I'd have found it all, but I didn't. And now I'm absolutely GLEEFUL about it! XDXDXD Oh, WOOT! They might as well outright confessed to each other infront of other people, and then he kissed her in the next episode. XDXDXD YESSSSSSSS!!! <--So cheered that when he kissed her. XDXD
Anyone here an SG-1 fan??
And now, please excuse the run-on sentences... No cuts; this is important.
THANK YOU TALK RADIO, FELLOW CONCERNED AMERICANS, and last and certainly least, SENATORS OF THE 110th US CONGRESS!!
For those of you who may not know, today was an amazing example of democracy in action.
On Tuesday, in an extremely controversial vote, the Senate revived the "Amnesty Bill" - officially called the Comprehensive Immigration Bill - for 30 hours of debate. I, along with the majority of America, was against this first cloture vote, but despite the numerous calls, faxes, letters, and e-mails from concerned citizens - constituents - across the country, the Senators ignored the voices of the people and voted in favor of bringing the bill out to debate again.
This bill called for the immediate legalization of 12-25 MILLION illegal immigrants by the simple signature of the President. They would be "required" to pay $5,000 to become registered and begin a path towards citizenship. - After a "24 hour background check." Current regulations stipulate 90 DAY background checks, and they're STILL not finished within that timeframe; this measure of the bill was a joke! - It even provided a way for the criminals amongst them to become citizens. The bill was drafted in secret behind closed doors - *coughcough* Anyone remember democratic campaign promises about OPEN government and nothing behind closed doors????*coughcough* - and not even printed when debate began on Wednesday. NONE OF THE SENATORS VOTING IN FAVOR OF THE BILL HAD READ THE BILL. Not a single one. Yet to the citizens who lit the phones, fax lines, e-mails, and mail boxes on fire who HAD read the bill and DID know what was in it, the Senators said it was WE who were the ones who did not understand the bill!! The bill never went to committee. It never had a cost analysis run on it! The Heritage Foundation, a star conservative Think Tank, was the ONLY one to run the numbers: they came up with a cost of $2.6 Trillion to the health care and social security systems in 15-20 years. Which you can attempt to throw the number out the window because they're a political organization and impugn them for who they are, but you canNOT argue that the cost of this bill is ASTRONOMICAL!
In the uphill battle of Citizens vs Government - a battle that is NEVER supposed to occur in a country where the government is FOR the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE - WE THE PEOPLE shut down the phone system of the United States Senate; they couldn't even send simple messages between each other. The phone system completely crashed from all the incoming calls. Even though just shy of 80% of the nation is against amnesty for illegal aliens and only 22% of the population supported the outrageous bill, (Rasmussen & CBS polls) the Senators were fully expected to ignore us all.
They didn't, surprising everyone.
The vote of 46 YEA to 53 NAY for cloture - bringing the bill to the floor to end debate and take an immediate vote which would pass it onto the House or kill it - effectively killed the bill again. - At least for a little while until Majority Leader Harry Reid decides to bring it up again.
For now, the threat of amnesty is past, but certainly not defeated. We can hope that maybe now the government will stop sitting on the funds promised to boarder patrol and to build the fence along the southern border. (A wasted attempt, IMO. If we're going to build anything, why waste money on a fence? Let's just build a wall if Washington is convinced that's the way to go. - Of course, we know that they dig tunnels. Under one of the most recent areas of fencing, they found EIGHT TUNNELS for drug trafficking. We need more boarder patrol and less incentive to come into this country illegally.)
Now in the Senate, they're debating the Fairness Doctrine - a bill to require radio stations to play both conservative radio shows and liberal radio shows, completely stripping the radio industry of their freedoms in both the business sense and especially in free speech. Radio talk shows like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity do far better than shows such as Al Franken and NPR simply because they're better. No one forces me or any Limbaugh/Hannity listener to turn the radio on to ABC to listen to them; it's free choice. And now the government is attempting to step in on that.
We've another battle ahead of us; the liberals have been after the talk radio industry - the only place in the media dominated by conservatives as opposed to the liberals controlling the mainstream tv and newspaper medias - for the longest time. And if they succeed in this effort, you can count on blogs being next because more and more people are turning to them for their information. - And those blogs are slanted - most of the most influential ones being conservative in ideology.
Today was a day to celebrate, but not a day to kick back and relax. There's a lot more to fight for, and with democrats in power and spineless republicans as our only hope, it's going to be extremely tough. The good news is that I think this fight may have, as Hannity said today, galvanized the base, and that's what the republicans needed after the horrible political year of 2006.
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Date: 2007-06-29 11:46 am (UTC)Ron Paul in '08.
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Date: 2007-07-02 11:05 pm (UTC)Usually, I hang out at online political forums where political junkies dish it out at each other digging up all sorts of information; there's a ton of information there, and it's all balanced by the posts back and forth. I read the contraversial Bills and Opinions for myself online, and I listen to Rush Limbaugh - which 10-15%+ of his listeners are of opposing viewpoints; he's a very good source of information, plus I like to have my views echoed by someone else. :)
As to Ron Paul... Do you really think you can trust him? How much research have you done on him? I'm really hoping and praying that Newt Gingrich announces in September that he is indeed running because he's the only guy I think I can trust. - Regardless of his personal history.
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Date: 2007-07-02 11:27 pm (UTC)I'm talking about the news. Give me the facts. Tell me what happened. Don't dress it up with speculation about the politics. Don't resort to scare tactics or sensationalism. Just tell me what happened in the world today, and what went on at certain events.
And why wouldn't that be trustworthy? It's idealist, yes. But it's certainly better than anything we currently have, which is filtered down through either Conservative-owned networks who feel the need to please a Republican base, or vice-versa. That's not what journalism is about. That's what editorials are about. And blogs. And talk radio.
As to Ron Paul... Do you really think you can trust him? How much research have you done on him?
Lots. I don't trust politicians, but I trust the Constitution, and so far he's the only one who seems to remember it exists.
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Date: 2007-07-02 11:29 pm (UTC)Erm, I don't know where that came from, but I meant the opposite, the Liberal networks.
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Date: 2007-07-11 07:34 pm (UTC)But I'm not dredging this up to continue it or have "my say." - Unless you want to continue it.
Lots. I don't trust politicians, but I trust the Constitution, and so far he's the only one who seems to remember it exists.
I just wanted to let you know that I wasn't ambushing you or anything on Ron Paul. ;) I'm asking every conservative who has a candidate why they trust them amd how. I don't have one; I don't like that all my cards are currently residing on a man who won't announce his possible running until very late in the primary race. So I'm looking to see why everyone trusts them, because to me, they all still look like politicians. I like what they say, but not what they do, so I want to know...
Ron Paul is actually a Libertarian, thus his strong roots to the Constitution. But honestly, regardless of his rhetoric last year, I'd rather have him in the White House than John McCain and even, at this point, Fred Thompson, who is practically a carbon copy of McCain.
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Date: 2007-07-11 07:49 pm (UTC)It's not fair to all the people who don't do that. Hence all the blind party allegiance that's becoming so rampant. People are spoon fed, told what to think instead of being trusted to think. Our media is just like our education system, really...
I'd rather have him in the White House than John McCain and even, at this point, Fred Thompson, who is practically a carbon copy of McCain.
Don't even get me started on McCain, LOL. I hope his top two aides quitting bodes very very ill for him.
With the recent trend of Conservatism veering toward moral conservatism and legislated morality, and a government just as big as a Liberal government, just about different issues, I think I actually am more a Libertarian at heart. (And frankly I think I'm less scared of Liberal big government these days than Conservative big government.) Though I'd proudly call myself a Conservative if the party actually were behaving Conservatively, in the purest sense. ;) Which is another reason why I like Ron Paul so much, because he acknowledges what the Republican party should be versus what the Republican party is and is becoming.
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Date: 2007-07-12 11:38 pm (UTC)I think that may be breaking, actually. The 2006 election showed frustration with the Republicans; the Congressional "dis"approval ratings show even more frustration with the democrats.
Honestly, I think the 2008 election will be far less consequential than everyone's making it out to be. Aside from the outcome of the War, I don't think much will really change much during that presidency. - Supreme Court cases aside. ;) - I think the next real election will be in 2012 after the American populace has had time to recover from the progressively worse polarization of the last 3 presidential runs.
Don't even get me started on McCain ... what the Republican party should be versus what the Republican party is and is becoming.
LOL! Amen to your thoughts on McCain!
Conservatism isn't leaning; Conservatism doesn't change. It's an ideology. The Republican party is the one changing. I do think that America is shifting closer and closer towards moral relativism in both parties as a whole and will "catch up" with Europe; true conservatives have a real battle to fight if we don't want to end up like them.
Neither big government form sounds better to me; in big liberal government, all freedoms are lost in order that everyone suffer equally. In big conservative government, all freedoms again are lost and people live in fear. As for libertarians, it's just a step away from anarchy, though between all the parties in play at this time, I think they have some of the closest ideals. *cough*socialsecurity*cough*
I can't count myself as anything but a Reagan Conservative at this point. The same thing you like about Ron Paul is what I like about Newt Gingrich. ;)